Netsuke toggle of cube [.1] with removeable stopper [.2] and ivory bead [.3], strung on a silk cord [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/4/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Netsuke toggle of cube [.1] with removeable stopper [.2] and ivory bead [.3], strung on a silk cord [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/4/2005]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther; PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
Date / Period: Date made: 1700-1800?, uncertain
Date collected: By 1921
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 26 mm, Length: max 17 mm, Length: max 20 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1980.34.365.1 Accession number: 1980.34.365.2 Accession number: 1980.34.365.3 Other numbers: 362
Research and responses: [.3; according to http://www.netsuke.org, a moveable bead through which the cord of the netsuke passes; SHD 3/10/2001]
Note that it is possible that this piece was collected by Tomkinson himself, as according to his obituary in the Kidderminster Times (see Gunther II 142), he did once travel to Japan. [SHD 30/7/2001]

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